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Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 25 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Why did Microsoft buy all these studios if the plan was to never actually have them make anything?

I've been asking that since they bought Rare and proceeded to do nothing with them.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Embrace, extend, and extinguish

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    They wanted to own existing IP. Not make new stuff. Buy an asset, milk it, and that'll do. Any words about long-term maybe were lies.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Yes, but what's the point of owning the IP if you're not releasing any new media with it, or even re-releasing the old stuff.

    It's not like we get a bunch of HD Collections out of it. Hell Activision's take on Wolfenstein hasn't even been re-released even though with Id and Activision owned by the same company there should be no issues.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    If you buy up all your potential competition, you have no competition.

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